22 March 1817

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§ 10 Bribery & Terrorism

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2. Bribery how comes it to have been made punishable? To speak more distinctly though

less familiarly more distinctly, by the forces of what interest have the penal laws

against the practice been produced.

Answer 1. One interest is the sort of interest possessed in or more particularly by

the class of men called Country Gentlemen – the land-bestriding of whom principally

is composed the class of terrorists. The laws against seduction in its alluring form

are instruments employed in the hands of that land bestriding class of seductionist

and other other seductionists whose instrument of seduction or terror the laws

against seduction in the /its/ alluring form are instruments by which the competition

of the purse brandishing seductionist is endeavoured to be excluded

In the language of shallow /superficial/ morality sentimentally[?] Bribery being

commonly held up to view in the character of an […?] immorality, hence the

affectation of seeking to exclude it by the force of penal law the republic[?] of a

regard /claim is laid to the […?] of zeal/ for morality. […?]